17 Mar 2015 Leaders Applaud Bipartisan Frank Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act in Energy and Environment
BPC Action pushes for the enactment of energy policy that allows the U.S. to harness its energy abundance to ensure affordable, secure, clean and reliable energy sources. We encourage the development of policies that take advantage of a wide variety of energy sources, including clean energy innovation, oil and gas, nuclear energy, and electricity. The following information is from the Bipartisan Policy Center, our 501(c)(3) affiliate.
Washington D.C. – Today, the Bipartisan Policy Center applauded the introduction of the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act. Introduced by Senators Udall (D-NM) and Vitter (R-LA), this bipartisan bill will revise the forty-year-old Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) to better suit the needs of our nation’s primary chemical regulatory framework in the twenty-first century.
Former Senators and BPC Senior Advisors Byron Dorgan and Trent Lott stated, “We believe that the regulatory framework [Senator Udall and Senator Vitter] propose will provide better public health protection than the existing statute and strongly endorse your effort to develop the legislation through a bipartisan process incorporating input from a diverse array of stakeholders.”
